Rewind and rewire: The IoT without the internet

[ See IoTWiki FreshThinking and The UnInternetof Things presented eMTECH 2016 ]

Do we need an IoT 2.0? asks Ken Munro, partner at Pen Test Partners. Being brave enough to take a new approach to an old problem is how technology gets adopted. It’s how pioneers from Steve Jobs to Elon Musk have revolutionised industries

The biggest problem with the Internet of Things is, well, the Internet. It’s a public highway and that makes any device connecting over it susceptible to attack, even more so when you consider that hackers can purchase and reverse engineer IoT devices making it even easier to then hijack others already deployed. This is particularly noticeable in the consumer space where IoT devices can expose home networks and the user’s data

Is the high-risk freemium model of the Internet viable in the longer term? Or should we be considering alternative networks now before we see malicious attacks discredit the IoT?